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When your car starts making unfamiliar noises from underneath — clunking over bumps, squeaking during turns, rattling at low speed — it’s easy to turn up the radio and hope it goes away. It won’t. Suspension noises are your vehicle telling you that a component has worn past its service life and is no longer
Most maintenance schedules are written in miles. Around here, the calendar matters just as much — because the conditions your car faces in July are nothing like the ones it faces in January, and the services that protect it are different too. At Derham’s Alignment & Auto Repair in Wilmington, NC, we see the same
“Engine repair” covers everything from a set of spark plugs to a head gasket, and the difference between those two jobs is the difference between a routine service and a decision about whether to keep the car. Knowing which category you’re likely in before you call helps. At Derham’s Alignment & Auto Repair in Wilmington,
Transmission repairs are among the most expensive services a vehicle can need — a rebuild runs $2,500-$4,500, and a full replacement can exceed $5,000. But the majority of transmission failures don’t happen overnight. They develop over weeks or months, sending warning signs that most drivers either don’t recognize or choose to ignore. By the time
Hampstead drivers put more highway miles on their vehicles than most Wilmington-area commuters. The daily run down US-17 to Wilmington for work, shopping, or school is 15-25 miles each way depending on where in Hampstead you live — Scotts Hill, Topsail, Surf City, or the communities along Sloop Point Road. That’s highway mileage at 55-65
Summer breakdowns aren’t random. They cluster in July and August, and almost every one of them was a marginal component that would have been caught in March for a fraction of the cost and none of the inconvenience. At Derham’s Alignment & Auto Repair in Wilmington, NC, our busiest breakdown stretch runs from mid-July into
Skipping an oil change doesn’t break anything immediately. That’s exactly what makes it dangerous — the damage is cumulative and invisible, and by the time there’s a symptom, the wear has already happened. At Derham’s Alignment & Auto Repair in Wilmington, NC, an oil change is the cheapest service on the menu and the one
If your vehicle drifts left or right when you let go of the steering wheel, something is off. It might seem minor — just a slight tug — but that pull is a symptom of an underlying issue that gets worse over time. In heavy Market Street traffic, a pulling vehicle means constant steering correction,
Shocks and struts don’t fail like a light bulb — they don’t work perfectly one day and stop working the next. They degrade gradually, losing damping force a fraction of a percent at a time, until you’re driving on suspension that provides half the control it did when it was new. By that point, most
Your brakes don’t fail without warning. They almost always give you signs first — the problem is most drivers don’t recognize them until a cheap pad replacement has turned into an expensive rotor-and-caliper job. For Ogden drivers navigating the daily grind of Market Street, Military Cutoff, and the Middle Sound Loop, brake components take a
